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BTW, this is not to overlook UNCW.
Northeastern is not the same as other CAA teams, they are not intimidated by our crowd or our athleticism, they are used to every game being a virtual road game. Any of you ever been to Mathews Arena?
NU runs a very complicated offense designed by Al Skinner (BC coach) known as "the flex". It is highly sophisticated with a lot of motion and hundreds of ball screens geared to their top players (Janning, Adako aka the punk, Allen) who can pour it in on any given night. You saw how much trouble VCU had with this offense last year coming off an emotional win over GMU and just 2 days rest. Now we have just one day to get ready for it this year.
Why? Bracket Busters! We must play 4 games in 7 days with limited preparation to open up a Saturday spot in late February because of this "good thing" according to ESPN that has NEVER helped VCU, other than getting a return home game the following year when we have to go away, sometimes 3 time zones away!
We've already lost once in conference, if we lose focus and come out of this 2-2 we could be done as far as #4 in a row goes, given who is remaining on the schedule, 2x odu, at gmu, at nu, athofstra, wm etc) this is a big stretch. We need a big 4-0 on this one.
Northeastern is not the same as other CAA teams, they are not intimidated by our crowd or our athleticism, they are used to every game being a virtual road game. Any of you ever been to Mathews Arena?
NU runs a very complicated offense designed by Al Skinner (BC coach) known as "the flex". It is highly sophisticated with a lot of motion and hundreds of ball screens geared to their top players (Janning, Adako aka the punk, Allen) who can pour it in on any given night. You saw how much trouble VCU had with this offense last year coming off an emotional win over GMU and just 2 days rest. Now we have just one day to get ready for it this year.
Why? Bracket Busters! We must play 4 games in 7 days with limited preparation to open up a Saturday spot in late February because of this "good thing" according to ESPN that has NEVER helped VCU, other than getting a return home game the following year when we have to go away, sometimes 3 time zones away!
We've already lost once in conference, if we lose focus and come out of this 2-2 we could be done as far as #4 in a row goes, given who is remaining on the schedule, 2x odu, at gmu, at nu, athofstra, wm etc) this is a big stretch. We need a big 4-0 on this one.